Tester Contracts in the South East

Tester
England > South East

The median Tester daily rate in the South East is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 152 191
Rank change year-on-year -12 +39 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 27 59 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 1.04% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.09% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 48
10th Percentile - £218 £313
25th Percentile £205 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -1.18% +11.84%
75th Percentile £488 £514 £501
90th Percentile £519 £565 £575
England median daily rate £459 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -8.25% +14.29% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £16.55
25th Percentile £10.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £10.30 - £18.50
75th Percentile £10.36 - £31.87
90th Percentile - - £53.70
England median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -58.13% +294.52% -59.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,056 5,391 7,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.75% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,042 3,766 4,994
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 241 330
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £58.42
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the South East

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Tester in the South East

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the South East

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the South East

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -8 15 £425 -5.56% 3
Berkshire -26 11 £425 -2.86% 3
Hampshire +6 9 £210 -50.00% 2
Surrey +14 3 £550 +124.49% 2
Buckinghamshire +23 2 £475 -10.38%
Oxfordshire +10 2 £488 +8.33%
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 6 (22.22%) QA
4 6 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (18.52%) JMeter
5 5 (18.52%) C#
5 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) JIRA
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
6 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) XML
6 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
6 4 (14.81%) Functional Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Manual Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 3 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (11.11%) JSON
7 3 (11.11%) DevOps
7 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
7 3 (11.11%) BDD
7 3 (11.11%) Python

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.70%) GGSN
2 1 (3.70%) IPsec
2 1 (3.70%) MPLS
2 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (3.70%) SGSN
2 1 (3.70%) SMS
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JMeter
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Selenium
4 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
4 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
5 1 (3.70%) Appium
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.70%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (3.70%) TestNG
5 1 (3.70%) TestRail
5 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.70%) Xcode
5 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Games
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
5 1 (3.70%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) XML
2 3 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
4 1 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) RESTCONF
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) PKI
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Digital Media
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Scrum
4 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Functional Testing
5 4 (14.81%) Manual Testing
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (11.11%) BDD
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.41%) Defect Management
7 2 (7.41%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.41%) SDET
7 2 (7.41%) SIEM
7 2 (7.41%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) C#
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle